Yellow Wagtail is another species to look out for in August. While it has disappeared as a breeding species in many areas of the UK, on autumn migration there is a good chance of finding it anywhere ...

Read the latest updates from our Cuckoos on their epic migration between the UK and tropical Africa, or track their movements in real-time on our Cuckoo migration map. If you enjoy these updates, ...

We encourage volunteers to enter their own counts using the BBS Online web application. Please consider using our online data entry system if possible – we have lots of help and guidance to support ...

Get to know your square Your Regional Organiser will give you the grid reference of your 1-km Winter Bird Survey square. To find the location of your square: Visit the Ordnance Survey website Enter ...

Estimates of breeding seabird populations are used to assess the potential impacts of proposed wind farm developments. The approach used in these assessments is known as the Biologically Defined ...

Obtaining measures of population size and fitness are key first steps to understanding how and why species' populations change over time. Quantifying such metrics is difficult in some species, however ...

Why are we conducting the Winter Bird Survey? The Winter Bird Survey will: Help us understand how wintering birds benefit from using agri-environment scheme and agri-environment and climate scheme ...

Understanding patterns of species diversity is crucial for ecological research and conservation, and this understanding may be improved by studying patterns in the two components of species diversity, ...

Bennett, S. & Weston, E. 2025. Growth of seaweed species on GLS logger attachments. Seabird 37: doi:10.61350/sbj.37.3 The authors thank the UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology for facilitating the ...

About the surveyThe Winter Bird Survey is a UK-wide repeat of the 2018/19 English Winter Bird Survey. Like its forerunner, the Winter Bird Survey covers a single season, collecting important ...

At this talk for the North Wales RSPB local group, Gethin will highlight the international importance of Wales' wetlands for some of our wintering birds.Focusing primarly of wildfowl and waders, this ...

Papers Environmental and Geographic Conditions on the Breeding Grounds Drive Bergmannian Clines in Nightjars On this page Journal of Biogeography, 2025 Staff Author (s) ...